HONOURS. ENGLISH. FIRST PAPER. (Take any three questions). 1. (a) Define Romanticism in Literature. Describe its rise and growth in English poetry from the middle of the century to the time of Byron. What were its chief characteristics in Byron as shown in the Bride of Abydos and Childe Harold? 18th (b) How does Byron's later poetry differ in spirit and from his earlier? Characterize the versification in Byron's earlier and later work. style 2. (a) Write a survey of the general conditions of the time when Sartor Resartus and Past and Present were writDescribe and consider Carlyle's attitude towards democracy, the progress of science, utilitarianism, faith. ten. (b) What are the leading ideas of the chapters on "Dilettantism" and "Reward" in Past and Present? artist. 3. the (c) Write an appreciation of Carlyle as a literary (a) Describe Shelley's outlook on life as revealed in fundamental ideas by which his poetry is inspired. (b) Characterize Shelley's style and compare it with that of Keats. (c) Give an appreciation of Shelley as a metrist and illustrate your answer by quotations from Alastor, Hymn of Pan, Ode to the West Wind and Stanzas Written Near Naples. 4. Answer any three of the following questions: (a) Give an appreciation of Arnold's poetic work, noticing particularly the Sonnets and the Thyrsis. (b) Give a critical analysis of Lines Written near Tintern Abbey, with quotations. (c) Discuss Arnold's judgment on Wordsworth's poetic style. (d) Give a critical account of The Bishop Orders His Tomb, and illustrate from it characteristic qualities of Browning's thought and style. HONOURS. ENGLISH. THIRD PAPER. 1. (a) Write an estimate of Arnold's work as a critic of life and literature in general. (b) What are his special qualities as a critic of style? (c) Discuss the range and quality of his observation. (d) Characterize Arnold's prose style. Compare it with Thackeray's. 2. (a) Show how Emerson's work is influenced by race, soil and environment. (b) ing? (c) What (d) 3. What are the fundamental doctrines in his teach- chapter on "Greatness in Art", and the principal illus- In what sense can Art be regarded as an imitation (b) of Nature? academic school, (2) the Pre-Raphaelites, (3) Ruskin on this question. (c) State and discuss Ruskin's criticism of some modern tendencies in his description of Geneva. 4(a) How would you distinguish between the tendencies of Romanticists, Classicists and Naturalists in Illustrate your remarks by references to the writers of the 19th century. literature. 1 (b) Illustrate from the works of Cowper, Wordsworth, Clough, Keats, how literature reflects the tendencies and movements of the time. 5. (a) Indicate the growth of decasyllabic verse from the old French decasyllable to Chaucer. (b) Give Dante's theory of the stanza and apply it to the structure of the sonnet. (c) Note the main features in the historical development of the rhymed couplet from Chaucer to the 19th century. (d) Give an appreciation of (1) the Spenserian stanza, (2) the ottava rima of Isabella, the stanza of In Memoriam, as poetic forms. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY. PRELIMINARY HONOURS I. (British Parties and Politics). (Candidates will attempt not less than 4, and not more than 6 questions). 1. Define accurately the terms 'Whig', and 'Liberal'; and trace the relations between the two points of view from 1832 to 1870. 2. What did Canning mean, in diplomacy, by "non-inter vention?" What limits did he set to the doctrine, and in what sense may his be regarded as the normal British policy? 3. Trace the development of free-trade from the beginning of Peel's great ministry to the Budget of 1860. 4. Discuss either (a) Mr. Gladstone's relation to contem porary ecclesiastical developments, or (B) the scope and value of his literary activities and interests. 5. Defend the Aberdeen policy in the Crimean war in terms of which Mr. Gladstone would have approved. 6. Estimate the place and influence, in politics, of Benjamin Disraeli between 1841 and 1868. 7. Summarize, with definite references to earlier nineteenth century legislation, the Irish situation just before the first Gladstone administration. 8. in Mr. Gladstone's political interests between 1860 and 1880? Can you see any important developments or additions To what extent were these due to the influence of indivi duals? |